TAIPAN: the AAO's first Starbug positioner and spectrograph

Nuria P. F. Lorente; Kyler Kuehn; Jon S. Lawrence; Carlos Bacigalupo; David Brown; Rebecca Brown; Scott Case; Steve Chapman; Vladimir Churilov; Robert Content; Tony Farrell; Michael Goodwin; Urs Klauser; Slavko Mali; Rolf Muller; Vijay Nichani; Scott Smedley; Minh Vuong; Lew Waller; Ross Zhelem; Helen McGregor

doi:10.1117/12.2313032

TAIPAN: the AAO's first Starbug positioner and spectrograph

Nuria P. F. Lorente, Kyler Kuehn, Jon S. Lawrence, Carlos Bacigalupo, David Brown, Rebecca Brown, Scott Case, Steve Chapman, Vladimir Churilov, Robert Content, Tony Farrell, Michael Goodwin, Urs Klauser, Slavko Mali, Rolf Muller, Vijay Nichani, Scott Smedley, Minh Vuong, Lew Waller, Ross ZhelemHelen McGregor

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The AAO’s TAIPAN instrument is a multi-object fibre positioner and spectrograph installed on the 1.2m UK-Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory. The positioner, a prototype for the MANIFEST positioner on the Giant Magellan Telescope, uses independently controlled Starbug robots to position a maximum of 300 optical fibres on a 32cm glass field plate (for a 6 degree field of view), to an accuracy of 5 microns (0.3 arcsec). The Starbug technology allows multi-object spectroscopy to be carried out with a minimum of overhead between observations, significantly decreasing field configuration time. Over the next 5 years the TAIPAN instrument will be used for two southern-hemisphere surveys: Taipan, a spectroscopic survey of 1x10^6 galaxies at z<0.3, and FunnelWeb, a stellar survey complete to Gaia G=12.5. In this paper we present an overview of the operational TAIPAN instrument: its design, construction and integration, and discuss the 2017 commissioning campaign and science verification results obtained in early 2018.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
Editors	Christopher J. Evans, Luc Simard, Hideki Takami
Place of Publication	Bellingham, Washington
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510619586
ISBN (Print)	9781510619579
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313032
Publication status	Published - 9 Jul 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 2018 - Austin, United States Duration: 10 Jun 2018 → 14 Jun 2018

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	10702
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	10/06/18 → 14/06/18

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Lorente, N. P. F., Kuehn, K., Lawrence, J. S., Bacigalupo, C., Brown, D., Brown, R., Case, S., Chapman, S., Churilov, V., Content, R., Farrell, T., Goodwin, M., Klauser, U., Mali, S., Muller, R., Nichani, V., Smedley, S., Vuong, M., Waller, L., ... McGregor, H. (2018). TAIPAN: the AAO's first Starbug positioner and spectrograph. In C. J. Evans, L. Simard, & H. Takami (Eds.), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII Article 107021A (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 10702). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313032

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Lorente, NPF, Kuehn, K, Lawrence, JS, Bacigalupo, C, Brown, D, Brown, R, Case, S, Chapman, S, Churilov, V, Content, R, Farrell, T, Goodwin, M, Klauser, U, Mali, S, Muller, R, Nichani, V, Smedley, S, Vuong, M, Waller, L, Zhelem, R & McGregor, H 2018, TAIPAN: the AAO's first Starbug positioner and spectrograph. in CJ Evans, L Simard & H Takami (eds), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII., 107021A, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 10702, SPIE, Bellingham, Washington, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 2018, Austin, United States, 10/06/18. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313032

TAIPAN: the AAO's first Starbug positioner and spectrograph. / Lorente, Nuria P. F.; Kuehn, Kyler; Lawrence, Jon S. et al.
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. ed. / Christopher J. Evans; Luc Simard; Hideki Takami. Bellingham, Washington: SPIE, 2018. 107021A (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 10702).

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